Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-14
SPORTS FOR 1887.
Greater Interest Than Ever Before to
BE Taken This Year.

Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-Sporting matters will
be livclier than ever in America this year.
This is especially true in pugilistic matters.
Foreign fighters threaten to descend upon us
i'll flocks. 1t is now announced, with some
show of reason, that Jem Smith the English
pugilistic champion, will arrive in this coun-
try about the first of March. Charlie Mitchell,
"Adonis, who has just been married, will also
return to Hamerica for the purpose of adj
ding to his already fat bank account jock
Burke is here already. Jack Dempsey has
just arrived in the east. Charlie Wall, the
champion middleweight of England, intends
to pay US visit some time during the month
OF March, and will probably have as a conf
panion Jimmie Carney, the English light
weight champion. Even old ALI Greenfield is
talking of coming over. With these men. all
of whom have fistic regulations, and those
who have reached the upper rounds Of the
ladder during the past year, it is an assured
fact that this year will be the livelest one for
pugilism this country has ever known Among
the men who may be included in the latter
class are Pat Killen, Frank Glover, Jake Kill
rain, Bill Bradburn, Joe Lannon and Jack
Ashton, although the last named amounts to
very little
The presence of so many first class puglists
in this country will be the means of bringing
about great many matches. In the first
place, Sullivan and Smith will surely meet: ;
but it is, on the other hand, by no means
probable that they will be allowed to fight in
Madison Square garden, or, in fact. in
any other public hall in the United
States Sullivan being a rusher Smith
will naturally demand battle accord
n min r,,,r IL.
accorded him, Smiths idea being that if he
can give Sullivan foot race for eight or
ten rounds, the big fellow will become winded
and then it will be an easy matter to settle
him. OF course, it is needless to say that
Smith will not last long enough to test the
correctness of this surmise
Mitchell has for some time been after
Dominick Mccartney, feeling, and Justly too
| think, that he was done" out of the former
fight by MacCormack, the referee Now,
Jake kilran has also taken after Mac. and
believe that, to avoid Kilran, Dom. will
accord Mitchell meeting. But if Mitchell
should not succeed in getting on with
Mccartney, he need not pine away, as Jack
Dempsey is fairly weeping for an opportunity
to show him what he knows about fighting.
Horse racing also promises to be conducted
ON grander scale this year than ever before
All of the large stakes are expected to fill,
and already the number of entries to most of
them are sufficient to warrant me in the as
sertlon that the interest in the stake races
Will be unprecedented in the history of the
American turf. One of the greatest horses of
the year is expected to be Dwyer Brothers
fremont, who has never yet seen the colors of
rival stable rush under the wire ahead of
him. Connemara and Bessie June also made
some creditable races as 2-year-old during
the past season, and l look for some good
work from these young ones this summer.
Bicycling has been greatly injured by the
hippodrome races promoted by professionals
who are personal friends, and who travel
from place to place in company, giving
tournaments" the result of which is always
known before either of the contestants
mounts his machine But fortunately for
the future of bicycling, there are several of
these cliques, and jealousy having sprung up
between them, the public has been the gamer,
in that 1t has been treated to some excellent
bona fide races.
Aquatics and foot racing are the two
branches of sport which will be almost at a
standstill in this country during the current
year, provided the present programme of the
scullers and sprinters to go to Australia be
carried out. But we can easily spare them
one season. Being without them for time
will only cause our appreciation of them upon
their return to be the keener.
OCTY COHEN.